"There will be noise and people around you most of your waking day.  God hears your silent prayers, but you may have to learn to shut out the distractions because the moment you need the connection with God may not come in quiet times."

-Henry B. Eyring
"Priesthood and Personal Prayer"
Ensign, May 2015

"The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the telephone and ordering groceries—we place our order and hang up. We need to meditate, contemplate, think of what we are praying about and for and then speak to the Lord as one man speaketh to another."

-Gordon B. Hinkley